208 Quotes by Barry Trotz

Practices for me, when your team is not going really well, it can stake a lot of stink out of the air.

My father, Orest, worked as a mechanic for the CNR and he got transferred to Dauphin from Winnipeg.

If you're going to be a championship-caliber team or a threat to be a championship-caliber team you have to play a 200-foot game and you have to produce on both ends of the ice.

As a coach, you look for the elements. Sort of like a chemist, you want to say, 'Okay, here we have all of the parts,' and make what you think will be a successful line.

Back-to-back Presidents' Trophies, I don't think that happens too often.

One of the blessings of Notre Dame is where it's at. It's in the middle of nowhere, but you become part of the community. It's a lifestyle, and it has a code, and that code teaches young men and women responsibility and leadership.

You go the whole distance as a player, the last thing you probably want is the coach to say, 'Okay, you've gone this far, I'm going to take you out.'

Part of the greatness of being on the Island is it's a smaller community; all of the players live within a couple miles of each other. It really promotes that family sort of atmosphere without being engulfed by the big city.

It's hard to score in this league when you don't get on the power play and don't play special teams.